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L. MOSS. RAILWAY GAR.

110.589,21). Patented Aug. 31,1897.- i

lUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LINCOLN MOSS, 'OF NEW YORILN. Y.

RAILWAY-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 589,215, dated August 31, 1897. I

Appiicaioii iiiai April s, 1897. serial No. 631,262. (No model.) y

end of the car being convertible at will into a cab or inclosure, affording the engineer or motorman plenty of room and preventing the intrusion of the passengers, which may be thrown open to allow the `freeentrance and exit of passengers into and out of the car and yet inclose and protect the apparatus for controlling the car.

Another object of the invention is to produce a car in which, quite apart from the question of convertibility, the controlling apparatus may be protected by the strength of the platform in the event of collision and may at all times leave the platform entirely clear and in no wayinterfere with the entrance and exit of passengers to and from either side of the car through the end entrance of the car.

Of course the invention may be applied to one or to both ends of a car and may be used on a car which is run as the irst of a train or as a single car. Indeed the invention may be applied to the train as a whole.

My improvement in one of the preferred forms is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which show, as an illustration, a car particularly adapted for electric railways, although the electric motor is not shown, its character and arrangement being immaterial to my invention.

Figure l shows the car in side elevation broken away to show the interior at the end which is being used as a cab. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the interior of the car, the upper portion being removed on the section plane 2 2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3 shows the interior of the cab, looking toward the rear from the plane 3 3 of Fig. 2. Y l

Throughout the drawings likeletters of reference indicate like parts.

Briey stated, in the preferred form of my invention the cab when in use is separated from the rest of the car by a transverse partition which extends 4entirely across the car,

affording the engineer or motorman plenty of Y can enter by any one of the gates G and pass in and out as rapidly as they can in cars not provided with my invention.

The platforms are indicated at B. The various seats in the car are clearly shown in the drawings. vOne seat E at each end ofthe car is included in the cab when the cab is in use, as at C'. A swinging door or partition D is hinged to the stationarypartition H. When closed, the partition D incloses the apparatus, as is shown at C to the Yright of Fig. 2, completely boxingit in from the rest of the car and occupying little, if any, more space than two of the ordinary seats. AUnder such circumstances the' seat E may be used by the passengers. When the partition D, however, is swung to the position shown at the left hand of Fig. 2, a shorter section, which is hinged to the free edge of the partition D, is swung out and secured to the side of the car above the seatvE, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, completely partitioning olf the end of the car and forming'a cab of the shape shown at C in Fig. 2. This sectional portion D may extend down to the stationary portion shown at E' in Fig. 3. rlhe motorman or engineer has plenty of room within this space, and as the platform in front of him is clear of passengers and. the gates closed nothing obstructs his view through the windows about it. Preferably the windowon his right will be a large clear pane, as shown, so that `he can have an unobstructed View of the platforms of the successive stations. So there are several other details which will be determined solely by expediency and which are to that extent immaterial tomy invention.

In a less-preferred form of my invention the smaller space, as shown at O at the right of Fig. 2, may constitute my cab when in use as well as when closed up and outof use. In

either case it will be seen that the apparatus ICO is located and inolosed at such a Vpoint that the platform is in front and therefore protects against destruction in collision, and that the side gates or entrances to the platform, the platform itself, the end entrance into the car, and the gate or entrance from one carplatform to the next are ent-irely unobstructed by my apparatus.

Having now fully set forth my invention, however, in its preferred forms, I claim as follows:

1. A `railway-car provided with a convertible cab having a movable partition which completely incloses the apparatus when the apparatus is not in use and divides the cab `from -the .remainder of the car when the apparatus is in use.

2. In acair provided with an entrance'at the end, the stationarypartition H, and a mov-` 3. Incombination in a car, the stationaryl opening into said platform and the controlling apparatus and inclosure therefor, back of the said gates and at one side of the said end entrance and platform, Wherebyall thefsaid entrances are entirely unobstructed and Whereby the said apparatus is protected from collisions by the said platform.

5. In combination ina cartheplatform,the

gates or entrances thereto, and the controlling apparatus set bacliand-entirely clear 'of `the platform, substantially for lthe purposes set forth.

In 'testimony `whereof {have hereunto *set my hand.

TMNOGLN MOSS. -Witnesses:

GEORGE SONNEBORN, HAROLD fBINNEY. 

